Straight Talk düz konuşma 1992
BluRay MKV 91 min 4,37 GB
Comedy USA
IMDB: 5.2/10 (1,588 votes)
Directed Barnet Kellman
Dolly Parton, James Woods and Griffin Dunne
BluRay MKV 91 min 4,37 GB
Comedy USA
IMDB: 5.2/10 (1,588 votes)
Directed Barnet Kellman
Dolly Parton, James Woods and Griffin Dunne
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
Straight Talk is fun and fluffy and light and easy, a movie built on emphasizing its ups and feel-good nature, wading through only those downs that are absolutely necessary to prop the story up all the higher. The roller coaster never dips very low, crawling up and and up and up, dipping only a fraction, and climbing exponentially higher until it reaches its metaphorical maximum height at the feel-good finale. What, did anyone really think Shirlee's career would fall off the tracks and crash and burn, or that she wouldn't find true love as the perfect end to her fantastically unlikely rise to the top? Straight Talk isn't that kind of movie. It's comfort food prepared at 24 frames per second. It's good for the soul in moderate quantities, and Director Barnet Kellman's film doesn't allow audiences to overindulge on its figurative sweetness. It's just fine the way it is, a tasty little concoction meant to boost its audience's collective inner strengths and personal ambitions, and that the film centers on a talk radio show that dishes out perfectly-measured little doses of advice makes the film's greater purpose as sugary cinematic medicine work all the better and go down all the smoother.
Straight Talk is just fine from a thematic point-of-view, but harder-to-please viewers who might not be content with the film's simplicities may be disappointed not only in the cozy little redundant structure, but in the stiffness that exists around the periphery. Indeed, Straight Talk just might be a little too formulaic for some tastes. It's a movie best enjoyed when one is in the right kind of mood, in need of a boost, or wishing to see that the world might not always be such a bad place, even if it takes a modern-day Fairy Tale crafted by a bunch of people already living "the dream" to prove otherwise. Straight Talk features a pretty good cast who play along with the easy-breezy tone and keep the picture firmly grounded in its feel-good simplicity. The acting can be a bit stiff at first, but things loosen up quite a bit throughout; by film's end, it's impossible not to love the characters. They're well-developed, at least to the point that they fully embrace and enhance the story's basic themes. The direction is point-and-shoot easy, smartly allowing the story and the actors to bring it to life, and the film is rounded into form by several catchy Dolly Parton tunes that each play right into the feeling of every scene they accompany.
Reviewed by Martin Liebman
